quick sketches at Grind

Nothing even close to complete, just playing around with some gestural forms and thinking about the next group challenge, "Demon Hunter"

final Bierstadt painting

Didn't change it too much, cleaned up a few lines and did some contrast-type adjustments. It really comes into it's own when you see it at 2'x3' though.

Bierstadt update

Here's the next update, with the photoshop painting.

re-imagining Bierstadt

For my Creative Processes class, I have to take an existing painting by an artist I admire and recreate it "with elements of my own life". I decided to use Bierstadt's, "The Domes of Yosemite", and for the elements of my life, I'm going to show my artistic progression, from photography to 3D to painting in Photoshop to finally drawing in pencil (yes, I'm moving backwards, sue me!)

Here's the first draft, minus the photoshop painting, which I will try to do Saturday and Sunday. The final piece is due at the printer @ 2:00pm on Monday, where I will make a 2'x3' print on photo matte paper.

random sketching and 3/4 view

I feel really weak at 3/4 view heads, so I think I'm going to play with those for a couple of days while I'm sketching. Sorry in advance that it'll probably look like ass for a while ;)

Emily Carr Life Drawing

Here are a couple of sketches from the first life drawing of the semester @ Emily Carr.

Lionfish Knight - First stabs

My friend Jimmy started up a character challenge, "Lionfish Knight", and I played around with it tonight....nothing complex, nothing complete, just two ideas, one a cyberknight and the other more traditional.